The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-10
CHANGE OF SENTIMENT.
The ClamOr for Execution Changed to
Petitions for Mercy.
The Anarchists Death to be Coasid-
cred as a Public Policy.
Chicago Police Bitter Against the
Communication Scheme.
Other Notes Reported by Wire from
all Quarters.
Petitlons ror AnnrchIsts,

CHICAGO, Nov. 5.-Day after day the
long lists of citizens who have hitherto
been emphatic in their demand for the
infection of the extreme penalty of the
law on the condemned anarchists
appear attached to petitions for COM
mutation. Among these the names
of eminent members of the bar and
bench attract the most attention and a
reporter requested several of the
legal lights to give their reasons for
signing petition. w. C. Cloudy said,
These men are guilty. There
is no doubt of that. They
are guilty OF murder; but
it must be remembered that this is not
ton, The question is whether they
should be punished to the full extent
of the law. This is the first time that
the question has come up since the
jury decided it. Judge Gary might
have passed upon it in denying new
trial, but did not. The supreme court
of the state simply declared that there
was no illegal error in the record of
that trial, and the United States court
declared that there was no legal ground
upon which they could take up and re-
view the trial. 1t comes now for the
governor to decide whether or not the
extreme penalty should be meeted out
to those men. It may be urged that
they had often before talked more
violently than they did at the Hay
market meeting. The ma yOr of the
city, its highest officer, was appealed
to, to suppress their talk and stop
their paper, but he refused, insisting
that they had right to talk and write
that This than bind Of
license for their talk on the night of
the murder. 1t is question of public
policy and l am certain that the exc
cution of these men is not the way to
suppress anarchists ideas or
socialistic tendency among the masses.
My idea is that they shoulu be sent to
Joliet for life, put in stripes and
treated simply as common felons.
Those men are honest in their de-
hung than sent to prisiOn for life.
The point is that they will be robbed
of all romance, sentimentality and
eXaltatiOn of martyrdom.
Ex-senator TrumbuIl said: am not
taking an attive part in this matter,
but l signed a petition because 1
thought it was best. was not alto
gether satisfied with the manner in
which the trial of the anarchists was
OOAOuCGCU. IL JOOh pldC0 dD d IlIll0 OF
great public excitement when it was
about impossible that they should have
and impartial trial.
Judge Moran said: 1t is not custom
airy in this country to hang a fellow for
talking. The sentiment is to let him
talk, that people will be ri ht anyhow.
Besides, will it pay to allow
these men to become martyrs
among the laboring and middle classes,
will it not give rise to the belief, I'M
wealth can say what he pieases, but if
a laborer, or a laborer's mouthp1ece,
talks, he will be hanged. Many acts
as well as statements are miSconstrued
and developed into far-reaching conse-
quenceS.
The reasons given by these gentle
men seem to voice the sentiments of a
majority Of the petitioners.